Kathy Marsh's favorite part of her job is learning, so it's fitting that she is WESH NewsChannel 2's education reporter.

Kathy came to WESH NewsChannel 2 in October 1992.She was born in Lackawanna, N.Y., and attended Erie Community College in Buffalo, N.Y., and Oakland University in Rochester, Mich.

She said her proudest achievement is "making a child smile and remember someone on TV cares about him or her."

Kathy recently won the National Association of School Psychologists Award for outstanding communicator on behalf of children.Only one journalist a year is awarded the prestigious honor.She also won the Florida School Boards Association's 1998 media award for excellent coverage Of public education.

When Kathy isn't working, she enjoys reading nonfiction books, reading to children and walking.She has a black and tan dachshund named Buck.

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The controversy has created a hubbub in local and national media, but Marsh, of the OCPS, says it hasn't disrupted the school's staff, students, and parents.

"It's done nothing as far as upsetting the school day or creating a disturbance," she says.
"It seems like parents have voiced different views; some said [distributing religious and atheist literature] is fine if it's passive and a child can walk by it.
Some said it's not appropriate for school.
But there's been no large outcry that I was made aware of," she says.

The major misconception, Marsh told the Monitor, is that the FFRF will now distribute materials like "An X-Rated Book," in Orange County Public Schools, as is being reported by some media organizations.

She quoted Woody Rodriguez, general counsel for the OCPS, who on Sept. 16, 2014, told a Fox 35 reporter, "Any materials that were previously rejected could be distributed, but to date no such requests have been made for the upcoming school year."

If the FFRF makes a request to distribute literature on Jan. 16, National Religious Freedom Day, is the school board now obliged to grant it permission?